Commissioners Kill Plans for Pool and Fitness Center

Commissioners Kill Plans for Pool and Fitness Center

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A proposed Mt. Lebanon community and school aquatic center has
been scrapped. Commissioners decided Monday night to notify the
school board that the municipality would not help fund a proposed
$11.6 million, 50-meter pool and fitness center.

The school board and commissioners had been trying to design a
joint facility for the past several years.

To fund its portion of the project, four of five commissioners
would have to approve a bond issue, which had been estimated at $6.5
million.

But Commissioners Barbara Logan and David Humphreys oppose the
facility as proposed. Commissioners also decided against
participating in a smaller, 25-meter pool project on the high school
campus.

"We're missing a lot of good opportunities here," said
Commissioner Ty Ely, who was a member of the pool planning
committee. …